Renal sympathetic activity in spontaneously hypertensive rats and normotensive controls, as studied by three different methods.

Recordings of sympathetic activity from multifibre preparations of renal nerves have produced conflicting results concerning the presence or absence of an increased sympathetic discharge in spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) compared to normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Therefore, recordings of single fibre activity to the kidney were performed in anesthetized SHR and WKY in comparison with multifibre recordings in conscious, undisturbed rats. A new method of estimating sympathetic discharge by analyzing the variability of "cycle activity" in multifibre nerve recordings was also used. The average nerve activity in a great number of cardiac cycles was then expressed in relation (in per cent) to the nerve activity in a small number of cardiac cycles with the highest and lowest nerve activity in each rat. Single fibre recordings showed a significantly higher sympathetic activity to the kidneys in SHR (3.8 +/- 0.3 Hz) than in WKY (1.7 +/- 0.2 Hz; p less than 0.001). Also average "cycle activity" was significantly higher in conscious SHR (34 +/- 1%) than in WKY (26 +/- 2%, p less than 0.01). This was due to the larger number of cardiac cycles in SHR with high sympathetic activity while WKY showed more of "silent" cardiac cycles which lacked nerve impulses. Further, the recordings of rectified multifibre renal nerve activity also showed an elevated sympathetic activity in conscious SHR rats. The increased renal sympathetic activity appears to reflect the "primary" central nervous "hyperreactivity" characterizing SHR hypertension. It is suggested that the increased renal sympathetic activity may be of particular importance for the development of primary hypertension in SHR and perhaps also in man.

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